tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post6885486165112509395..comments2015-03-31T08:17:02.041-08:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: SenselessJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-13678950117019031582013-02-07T11:14:04.152-09:002013-02-07T11:14:04.152-09:00Clearly you have no taste in music!Clearly you have no taste in music!Tristan Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936915388418287612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-41813651660148793402013-02-07T09:30:28.980-09:002013-02-07T09:30:28.980-09:00Also let&#39;s remember that 11 million people wer...Also let&#39;s remember that 11 million people were senselessly slaughtered in the holocaust. Six million Jews and 5 million others.Lanemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06230899522753297278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-22556433410850577782013-02-06T18:10:25.892-09:002013-02-06T18:10:25.892-09:00Whatever phrase gets coined, it&#39;s clear that t...Whatever phrase gets coined, it&#39;s clear that the GOP is the prime progenitor of the politics of hatred and it not only involves prejudice against our non-caucasian President but also against those who would support him or simply not agree with them. How many under article comments have we seen that immediately throw the liberal tag on anything the commenter doesn&#39;t agree with? Dr Wayne Dyer supposedly has said &quot;The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don&#39;t know anything about.&quot; I think that pretty much covers it all.ethiessen1http://www.blogger.com/profile/04225760887546808421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-68047738958069241362013-02-06T14:20:57.187-09:002013-02-06T14:20:57.187-09:00My favorite album was Paradise Theatre so I guess ...My favorite album was Paradise Theatre so I guess you could be right. I did see Styx in Iowa City on their Roboto tour and it didn&#39;t compare. I don&#39;t think either album had anything about the Holocaust in them, maybe if I play them backwards?Dana Teelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02686989075671803137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-60169681707109622252013-02-06T10:04:57.016-09:002013-02-06T10:04:57.016-09:00You will laugh at my reaction. At the time, I tho...You will laugh at my reaction. At the time, I thought that the Republican movers and shakers, you know the people that are behind the scenes that we don&#39;t see, decided that they did not want to win the election because the next four years were going to be terrible no matter who was in office and they did not want the Republican party to bear responsibility for the ugliness. I could not look at McCain and Palin and call them a viable set of candidates at the time. Perhaps if President Obama had not won, but one of the white Democrats had won, the Republicans would not have gone barking mad.Lady-Crackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847059948420463767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-66692286373220551222013-02-06T05:05:22.914-09:002013-02-06T05:05:22.914-09:00The plain fact is that present-day conservatism no...The plain fact is that present-day conservatism no longer refers to the &quot;conservation&quot; of anything. All it means is &quot;opposition to Barack Obama and anything the thinks, says, or does.&quot; This has been the GOP&#39;s philosophy of government for the past several years. It is obviously racist in its origin, and they have been duly punished for it. This is unfortunate, since real conservatism has historically served a wholesome function in our nation&#39;s development. But they have abandoned that which was of value for that which is, in effect, political vandalism. And their pronouncements, increasingly, are mere graffiti.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-10647085353191706062013-02-05T23:14:03.559-09:002013-02-05T23:14:03.559-09:00I was surprised the other day to pick up my local ...I was surprised the other day to pick up my local paper only to find Thomas Sowell&#39;s column still railing about the Benghazi attack. Curious as to how strong the interest in what I thought was a dead issue really was I pulled up Google&#39;s search trends page. <br /><br />It turns out that the search term &quot;Benghazi&quot; has about as much interest on average over the past 90 days as the term &quot;compost.&quot; Actually, when a conservative isn&#39;t pushing a column about it there is less interest in Benghazi than compost. <br /><br />Either we have a national compost crisis or the Republican Party is getting as much traction as a &#39;68 VW Bug at the bottom of a wet clay pit with slick tires. I&#39;m looking forward to the compost hearings in Congress soon. <br /><br />http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=benghazi%2C%20compost%2C%20arctic&amp;date=today%203-m&amp;cmpt=qPangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-53776343993772803552013-02-05T22:22:55.766-09:002013-02-05T22:22:55.766-09:00That actually made sense. Which I find really, rea...That actually made sense. Which I find really, really, troubling. How is it that 47% of the electorate is that far off the curve, over the shark, lost in the woods and/or up the creek without a paddle to such an extent that description of the decline of an 80&#39;s band makes sense as a comparison? Pangolinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18369503994505817789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-2407486994084288532013-02-05T14:44:52.315-09:002013-02-05T14:44:52.315-09:00My parents raised me to not say the snarky thing o...My parents raised me to not say the snarky thing out loud, but yeah, that&#39;s pretty much always been my take too.Boiler Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-13758157339548723192013-02-05T12:40:07.929-09:002013-02-05T12:40:07.929-09:00My vote for the political equivalent to &quot;Jump...My vote for the political equivalent to &quot;Jump the Shark&quot;?<br /><br />&quot;Picking Palin&quot;. That&#39;s what McCain did to save his dying campaign to win over the Teanuts, and nothing better pinpointed the beginning of the end for his campaign.Mugsyhttp://mugsysrapsheet.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-51929352321617676832013-02-05T10:19:05.389-09:002013-02-05T10:19:05.389-09:00Speaking of senseless bat-shit crazy. . . . I&#39...Speaking of senseless bat-shit crazy. . . . I&#39;d be interested in your take on this.<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/obama-sending-death-squads-after-gun-rights-activists<br /><br />Like Obama has everything else under his finger and is now out to assassinate gun rightts activists. I would think Mr LaPierre and maybe Ted Nugent would be higher on the &quot;hit list&quot; than the two guys they mention in the story.Greg - ETC(SW) - Retirednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-44069538084711541892013-02-05T09:33:38.426-09:002013-02-05T09:33:38.426-09:00That should have been - &#39;the forest of the cou...That should have been - &#39;the forest of the country blah de blah ...&#39;<br /><br />;)Cindy Rellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13418320150105214755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-2525647288160457802013-02-05T09:26:17.202-09:002013-02-05T09:26:17.202-09:00Having been thwarted by President Obama, not once ...Having been thwarted by President Obama, not once but twice, Republicans are now throwing a full blown hissy fit. They will continue to complain to the country that did not elect them, just as a child who does not get his way complains to his mother. &quot;He&#39;s touching me!&quot; &quot;MoooM! He called me a name!&quot; &quot;He looked at me wrong!&quot;<br /><br />David Avella, President of GOPAC &quot;Educating and Electing a New Generation of Republican Leaders&quot;, was on &#39;Real Time with Bill Maher&#39; a couple of weeks ago. He accused the President of &#39;name calling&#39; for using the term &#39;right-wing&#39; when referring to Republicans in his inaugural address. (WTF???!!!) <br /><br />Their hate of anything and everything Obama has blinded them. They cannot see the tree of the country through the forest of their ideological hubris. I have a feeling that if President Obama got a medical degree and cured cancer. His detractors would be angry because he was putting Oncologists out of work.Cindy Rellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13418320150105214755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-22378659496809718322013-02-05T06:51:37.223-09:002013-02-05T06:51:37.223-09:00Jean Clarkin wrote --
&quot;...I think they invoke...Jean Clarkin wrote --<br />&quot;...I think they invoke the Holocaust so often because it gives them a thrill. Because in their (not so secret) secret world, the one between their ears, they wish they could. They want to. They wish they could get away with it. Because some of them read Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, not as a horror story but as a handbook.&quot;<br /><br />Absolutely. They are bereft of any intrinsic humanity.<br /><br />She also wrote --<br />&quot;None of them have the brainpower, the moral fiber or the self-reflective courage of William F. Buckley Jr.:<br /><br />This is true only insofar as brainpower is concerned. I posted my views on Buckley&#39;s morals downthread (before I saw this.) Here they are again.<br /><br />&quot;William F. Buckley, Jr., dead these five years, was the archetypical 1960&#39;s &#39;serious conservative,&#39; a pose he maintained until his death. With his slight British accent and upper-class British stammer (to some degree honestly acquired) he put a patrician face on racism and bigotry. Those that have followed and tried to emulate him have less than a fraction of his intellect and display that fact constantly. I suppose one might be thankful that they are so transparent, since Buckley had a lot of people fooled.&quot;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-39495925052033359402013-02-05T06:26:30.470-09:002013-02-05T06:26:30.470-09:00For Styx to have had a last good album, they would...For Styx to have had a last good album, they would have to have had a first good album. Just sayin&#39;.<br /><br />Great post, Jim.John in Louisiananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23439096298857643642013-02-04T17:14:11.879-09:002013-02-04T17:14:11.879-09:00Oh nooooossss!! You mean if we constantly keep ref...Oh nooooossss!! You mean if we constantly keep referring to Republicans, we&#39;ll trivialize them, making it easier to become them!!?? Oh the insidious evil of it all . . . . <br />How about Commies? Can we go back to calling everyone Commies?<br /><br />Once again, great article Jim.<br />MyTwoCentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-33680480812310371752013-02-04T12:08:31.324-09:002013-02-04T12:08:31.324-09:00The possibility of a rational solution has to be p...The possibility of a rational solution has to be premised on a rational argument. <br /><br />Bringing irrational arguments to the table is not a rational justification to whine about not getting a solution.<br /><br />As to &#39;us&#39; versus &#39;them&#39;, ...that&#39;s a position the Republicans carved out for themselves long ago, and they&#39;ve only worked to more strongly enforce that position ever since.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-9051053414953235262013-02-04T10:56:57.578-09:002013-02-04T10:56:57.578-09:00Could you repeat that? The Chinese are planning t...Could you repeat that? The Chinese are planning to or are already drilling in the Arctic?<br /><br />You don&#39;t hear the media complaining about that because it&#39;s fictional nonsense. <br /><br />On the other hand, the Russians, besides their own companies drilling for oil, they&#39;ve signed deals with Exxon, Eni and Statoil just to name a few other multinationals.<br /><br />The media? They have been and continue to report each new deal and each new development. <br /><br />Your premise is not supported by any reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-60282900061007402462013-02-04T10:17:19.508-09:002013-02-04T10:17:19.508-09:00As for bat-shit crazies - after 2 elections, the ...As for bat-shit crazies - after 2 elections, the birthers are still spewing their garbage<br /><br />McCain was about the only GOP leader who was willing to state publicly that he believed that Obama was a natural-born US Citizen. The rest either jumped on the birther band-wagon or mumbled something about waiting for &quot;evidence&quot;. <br /><br />Even today, no GOP leader has stepped up to the plate and called out the birthers. Pamela Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18117837896972479819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-35151724262560029102013-02-04T06:15:44.655-09:002013-02-04T06:15:44.655-09:00You&#39;ll be glad to know, then, that conservativ...You&#39;ll be glad to know, then, that conservatives of the Tea Party persuasion next to Fox News now have a new thought-bubble to hang out in: https://www.teapartycommunity.com/ - or, shark-infested waters.Renehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09193552314188953480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-27664847846532677672013-02-04T05:49:26.127-09:002013-02-04T05:49:26.127-09:00Just wondering if folks realize that the Russians ...Just wondering if folks realize that the Russians and the Chinese are planning to or are already drilling in the Arctic? Yet I don&#39;t hear anyone in any media complaining about that. Just the usual suspects screaming bloody murder about the US wanting to. Why is that?Lucas Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-5929280717169980442013-02-04T05:44:26.102-09:002013-02-04T05:44:26.102-09:00&quot;There are none so blind as those who will no...&quot;There are none so blind as those who will not see.&quot;<br /><br />The responses to Ann C have made that very clear.Lucas Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-7860598826932301652013-02-04T05:30:28.616-09:002013-02-04T05:30:28.616-09:00Buckley ran the National Review to have a conserva...Buckley ran the National Review to have a conservatism that didn&#39;t produce things like this. But he did not always succeed.<br /><br />In the spring of 1975, some Bible college paid for a set of surveys of student politics, at their own institution, and at Princeton, Stanford, and five other national universities. Unsurprisingly, the seven schools formed a fairly tight cluster, with the sponsor way off to the right, so that the grand average was slightly outside the cluster. (To make up numbers, suppose the national colleges were spread between 45 and 55% on some question, and the sponsor at 90%; then the eight would average at 55%.) <br /><br />On the basis of this data alone, some fool wrote an article that eight years of Princeton (towards the left of the cluster) would produce graduates indistinguishable from the Lenin Institute; and National Review published it. subnuminehttp://subnumine.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-25580982078565202842013-02-03T19:32:07.801-09:002013-02-03T19:32:07.801-09:00Well, this is one of the few times I disagree with...Well, this is one of the few times I disagree with you! Oh not on the main point of your post, THAT I agree 100% on. But Styx did not jump the shark by doing Mr Roboto...and they have done better things since! But anyway, other than that one bit, good job!Tristan Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936915388418287612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-26958833036974812222013-02-03T17:43:57.144-09:002013-02-03T17:43:57.144-09:00Right on, Hazy! Come what may, the Dude abides... ...Right on, Hazy! Come what may, the Dude abides... <br /><br />Having said that, the GOP does seem to be well represented by Sobchak&#39;s mindless obeisance to some imagined principles of decorum (&quot;There are fuckin&#39; *rules* man!&quot;), and will suffer in like kind. In the words of Walter Sobchak, &quot;Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.&quot;<br /><br />~the Digital Warrior-Poetneocelthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749768101955435672noreply@blogger.com